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When discussing the United States Army's 1876 campaign against the Sioux, Powers is occasionally ____________ context: he describes General Crook's march to the Battle of the Rosebud but neglects to mention how it fit into the army's overall strategy.
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Song, speech, and music are typically one in the blues: the instrument complements the voice, and though they may play instrumental solos, the most ____________ blues artists sing through both voice and instrument.
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One of the incongruities of modern industry, according to Reck and Graedel, is that we manufacture modern products with the most sophisticated technologies available yet generally adopt relatively ____________ approaches to recycling them.
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The Federal Reserve Bank is one of the most ____________ institutions in the United States, yet many are not aware of the important operations and activities it has carried out during its lifetime.
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Citing the corruption and intrigue that characterized politics in the city, my colleague ____________ the newspaper's trove of journalism prizes, declaring that finding exciting stories in the city must be effortless.
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The commission's report is free of bureaucratic jargon and, for a document that must have been written by multiple authors, it is remarkably (i)____________ in style. In that respect, the document is an improbable literary triumph; its analysis and recommendations, however, are (ii)____________.
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Some of the characters and themes depicted on the painted glass vessels found at Begram point toward an Egyptian provenance, but Egypt was not the ____________, and perhaps not even the principal place of manufacture.
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Julia's success as an academic scientist came largely as the product of her gift for the scholastic ____________: although definitely not a genius, she had a plodding tenacity and an apparent immunity to drudgery.
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Scholars of the civil rights movement have often characterized it as springing from social, political, and economic structures ____________ the South, thus overlooking the tradition of civil rights activism in other regions of the country.
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Naomi Hossain argues that Jeffrey Sachs' narrative about economic development in Bangladesh is best described as a ____________, since it presents many accurate observations but selectively exaggerates and minimizes for effect.
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Traditionally, deep knowledge of nature had been regarded as ____________; during the scientific revolution, however, free and open communication of research came to be viewed as a sine qua non of scientific progress.
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Although its (i)____________ is (ii)____________, the musical style known as "ragtime" has most often been described as an amalgamation of African American music with European forms.
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Perhaps most (i)____________ to early-twentieth-century critics of outdoor advertising was that their legislative successes did little to diminish the exponential growth of the industry. Indeed, their reform legislation to some extent (ii)____________ industry expansion, as each new legislative action affirmed bill posters' right to occupy all but
specifically proscribed spaces.
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One of the most widespread traits among animals is (i)____________. It runs from (ii)____________, such as yawning when others yawn, to emotional (iii)____________, in which the self resonates with fear or joy when it picks up fear or joy in others.
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When there is less natural dust blowing into eastern China, the air quality for millions of people there (i)____________: natural dust plays an important role in determining air temperatures and thereby promotes winds to (ii)____________ human-made pollution. Less natural dust, therefore, means the air becomes (iii)____________, with pollution becoming more concentrated and sticking around longer.
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Margaret Oliphant's literary output was ____________: it included almost 100 novels, 50 short stories, 25 nonfictional works, and in the region of 400 articles published in the periodical press.
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The New York City response to the Astaires was enthusiastic, but in London it was ____________: British audiences had never seen dancers like them, and they associated the pair's seemingly effortless skill with an idea of the United States at its best.
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The ____________ of Lord Kelvin's attack on Darwin for the latter's unsophisticated estimate of the minimum age of the Earth suggests that Kelvin's motives were not entirely scientific.
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As Peggy Noonan's memoir recounts, the hypocritical attitudes she witnessed among liberal fellow-students had a dramatic effect on her political orientation, causing her to ____________ conservatism.
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She was skeptical about the (i)____________reviews of the latest production of the play, feeling that the production she had seen years earlier was (ii)____________, and that any successive attempts must undoubtedly fall short.
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